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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 3207265"] You're ignoring the highly restrictive sanctions on travel and recruit visits. People crushed the staff for going all-in on certain recruits too early, to the exclusion of other recruits. When we missed on those recruits, we had no backup plan. Why did we have no backup plan? Because the staff literally didn't have the resources available to them to cast nearly as wide a recruiting net as they usually would. THE SANCTIONS WERE WAY WAY WAY WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MORE THAN SCHOLARSHIP LOSSES. Sorry for yelling. And playing 7-8 guys has nothing to do with the number of scholarship spots available. You need those extra scholarship spots to weather roster attrition, especially unexpected early departures. These bad Syracuse teams of late have also been some of the youngest teams we've had. That's largely attributable to scholarship restrictions. They've also had a bunch of grad transfer rent-a-players, again directly attributable to the sanctions. Cuse teams in the past would often get upperclassman production from guys occupying the last 2 or 3 scholarship spots as freshman. The sanctions prevented the team from carrying guys like that or forced the staff to play guys like that earlier than they were ready because there's nothing else available. Marek would be an excellent upperclassman role player getting like 10 minutes a game. Thanks to the sanctions, he's being leaned on for big minutes a lot of the time. Are the sanctions the only contributing factor to how much we suck? Nope. Are they the biggest factor and did they cripple the program enough to make recruiting elite talent nearly impossible post-sanctions? Undoubtedly. Cannot be denied. JB needs to adapt his offensive and defensive coaching. He's not getting the job done in the X's and O's department. The staff needs to recruit better. Even adjusting for the limitations and the damage to the program's prestige, they're underachieving. The players we do have aren't getting better as quickly as we need them to, if they're getting better at all. This is all true. The sanctions are 50%+ of the reason we're in the boat we're in right now. This is also true. [/QUOTE]

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